A Discussion on Conditional Optimism Regarding Climate Change: Four CACOR Members Offer Their Perspectives January 2020 TD Dougherty[1] Just after the beginning of 2020, I was interested to find an internet link had been provided by one of my colleagues in the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR). Our group has been studying […]
It’s a Dog’s Life
Gordon Kubanek, CACOR board of Directors, presents: It’s a Dog’s Life To Leash or Not to Leash, that is the question Last week I was walking my daughter’s dog at the cottage on a private gravel road with nobody around me and no houses. A car came up behind the dog and I both went […]
Innovation for a greener Canada
Dr. John Hollins, past Chair CACOR explains: Canada is edging, oh so slowly, towards a greener future. Individual initiative This is happening as a result of research, development, and in some cases small-scale deployment of promising new technologies by entrepreneurs: individual citizens, ad hoc groups from labour and engineering, researchers in universities and governmental laboratories, […]
BILL C-69: Is the balance right?
Dr. John Hollins, past Chair CACOR, reviews Bill C-69. Some thoughts An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts. Fundamental issue Thoreau captured the essence of the matter in 15 words some 150 years ago: […]
Carbon tax flawed
Dr. John Hollins, past chair CACOR makes a response to an article by Andrew Coyne Re: Carbon tax flawed. But it’s the best option for now, National Post, October 25 Wrong. At the level of tax proposed, it will not do anything to help Canada meet the commitment it made in Paris. Such a tax […]